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We’re so excited to get started with this project and this blog! Posts will be published as we visit each neighborhood; we preemptively apologize for delays. If you have any location suggestions, or would like to be part of this process, let us know! Please follow along here, on Instagram @90conesproject, and on Facebook at…
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September 25, 2026 Enjoying the fall weather, we took a long walk over to Homewood West. We walked from our house, passing two Sunoco gas stations before reaching our destination: a third Sunoco gas station! There we grabbed Blue Bunny treats. Liddy and Edmund had cookie ice cream sandwiches and Pippa had a cookies and…
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August 21, 2026 As many have noted before us, Fairywood has a really cool name. The reality of this westernmost neighborhood of Pittsburgh is a little less fantastic: most of Fairywood consists of large warehouses, which we toured by car. We also visited Fairywood’s small residential area; while this neighborhood was once home to fairly…
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September 13, 2026 We usually search for each neighborhood on Google on the way there, and Beechview was our first destination that yielded news posted just days ago. Unfortunately, the neighborhood’s current notoriety is due to the rising number of ICE sightings and detentions over the past few weeks. Beechview follows in longstanding Pittsburgh tradition…
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July 15, 2026 On a muggy, humid Wednesday night, Edmund and Liddy took a walk to Moonlit Burgers on Penn Avenue. While our original intention was simply to have burgers for dinner, we realized that the addition of milkshakes made this a 90 Cones-worthy excursion. We were excited to find our friend Eric tending bar.…
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July 11, 2026 Our visit to Polish Hill was momentous for several reasons. For starters, this was the first 90 Cones visit ever without Pippa, breaking her 33-neighborhood streak. (We miss her, and hope we’re doing our chief blogger credit with this post.) Second, it was our first time being invited to share ice cream…
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June 28-30, 2026 As Pippa prepares to begin her junior year, we are stepping into the world of college tours. For our first venture we took a short road trip over to Ohio to check out Case Western Reserve University, Oberlin College, and Kenyon College. But it wouldn’t be a Barlow trip without some ice…
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July 8, 2026 The 90 Cones Project was born one year ago today! Twelve months after brainstorming this crazy idea on the way to the orthodontist and making our first stop in Squirrel Hill North (shout out to Nana’s Scoops!), we have visited nearly 37% of Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods. We’ve visited old favorites and discovered brand…
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March 30, 2026 As the only Pittsburgh neighborhood that spans a river, Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar earned not one but two visits. During Pippa and Edmund’s spring break, they took the bus across the Allegheny River to the Waterworks to see Project Hail Mary (amazing btw) and grab ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery. Edmund enjoyed Our Strawberry…
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May 30, 2026 Liddy and Pippa took a long after-dinner walk to Shadyside, stopping at Mercurio’s on Walnut Street. Pippa enjoyed Death by Chocolate and Stracciatella while Liddy had Strawberry Cheesecake and Dulce de Leche. Mercurio’s holds special meaning for the Barlows: not only have Greg and Liddy been fans of their award-winning gelato for…
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May 25, 2026 Central Lawrenceville is home to a long-standing Memorial Day Parade, our family’s tradition for the start of summer. Greg and Edmund marched along with their Scouts BSA troop, and Pippa and Liddy met up with family friends Zoe and Peter. After taking in the bagpipes, Ghostbusters, and fiery tubas, we walked down…